Category: Fired

Earlier this week IGN fired Nintendo Editor Filip Miucin after first removing “his” review of Dead Cells due to allegations of plagiarism. IGN conducted an internal investigation, and they determined that the accusations were credible and that Miucin had stolen numerous lines from a review by Boomstick Gaming. Miucin has now released a response video…

Officer Michael Moore was fired after a viral video captured him telling a group of black men that they didn’t “belong” in his city. (Facebook) An Arkansas police officer has been fired after a viral video showed him telling a group of black men that they didn’t belong in the city. WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC…

Former Baylor coach Art Briles, who was fired in the wake of the university’s sexual assault scandal in 2016, has been hired to coach an American football team in Italy. “It’s a chance to get back on the field,” he told ESPN by phone. “I’m excited. I really am. I’m grateful for the opportunity.” Briles…

It’s like the plot of “Bridesmaids” only very, very different. Seth Wenig/AP Photo; cduffy90/Twitter Weddings , which are meant to be celebrations of love and happiness, can bring out all different sides of people. Just take it from the bridesmaid on the receiving end of a cringe-worthy email in which the bride asked her to…

Two Roswell police officers were fired Thursday morning, weeks after video surfaced of them using a coin-flip app to determine an arrest, Roswell city officials confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson were fired following an internal investigation, Roswell city spokeswoman Julie Brechbill told The AJC in an email. The two officers…

by Erin B. Logan July 23 at 12:33 PM Email the author After a man approached the checkout at a Home Depot in Albany, N.Y., two weeks ago, staff member Maurice Rucker asked him to leash his dog. The man exploded. Rucker, a 60-year-old black man, garnered attention over the weekend after being fired from Home…

Maurice RuckerScreenshot: WNYT By now we should all know the story of Maurice Rucker, the 60-year-old Home Depot employee who was fired from his job at an Albany, N.Y., store after he responded to the racist verbal abuse a customer lobbed his way. “If Trump wasn’t president, you wouldn’t even have a job,” the customer…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel launched its newest air defense system on Monday on the Syrian frontier, where Damascus’s Russian-backed forces have been routing rebels, as Moscow sent envoys for what it called “urgent” talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint statment with Hungarian Prime Minister…

A Home Depot store in Bellingham, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) After a man last Thursday approached the checkout at a Home Depot in Albany, N.Y., staff member Maurice Rucker asked him to leash his dog. That’s when the man exploded. Rucker, a 60-year-old black man, claimed he was fired Tuesday after defending himself from a…

“The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,” Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement obtained by CNN. Gunn had come under fire in recent days after his comments, which made…

James Gunn will no longer direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, according to a statement from a Disney spokesperson. The director’s dismissal comes after his old tweets joking about pedophilia and rape were recirculated by Trump supporters online. “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our…

The move comes after controversial tweets from the filmmaker were resurfaced. James Gunn is exiting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The move comes after conservative personalities resurfaced old tweets Thursday in which the filmmaker joked about controversial topics such as pedophelia and rape. Gunn has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. “The offensive…

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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) The backlash continues after “Coupon Carl” called the police on a black woman who was trying to use a manufacturer’s coupon in store, accusing the woman of forgery. ‘Coupon Carl’ Calls Cops on Black Woman at CVS for Allegedly Using a Forged Coupon, But Was Busted… Yes, this is yet…

Acknowledging that his job had been on the line since last season, fired St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny still expressed thanks to his now-former team. “I’ve got nothing but gratitude,” Matheny told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday, “and this goes way back. I got two new lives with this organization, first when [manager]…

Two developers for the game studio ArenaNet have been fired following a spat with fans online. The company produces Guild Wars 2, a multiplayer online role-playing game. Kotaku reports that the two fired employees are Jessica Price and Peter Fries. The incident began when Price responded derisively on Twitter to a fan suggesting that characters…

A doctor has been fired from a top government role for suggesting gender is determined at birth. Dr David Mackereth, 55, who has worked as an NHS doctor for 26 years, was deemed to be ‘unfit to work’ after he said he would refuse to identify patients by their preferred gender. The senior doctor was…

A white North Carolina man was fired after he demanded identification from a black woman at a private community pool on the Fourth of July and called the police when she refused. The woman, Jasmine Abhulimen, posted a Facebook video of the episode at the Glenridge Community Pool in Winston-Salem. In the video, Ms. Abhulimen…

After months of threats from President Donald Trump, at 12:01 a.m. Friday a trade war between the world’s two largest economies began in earnest. The U.S. started adding 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, and China has promised to retaliate in kind. The effects could disrupt supply chains and markets across…

Fired over MAGA hat Photo: CTV Darin Hodge The former manager of a Lower Mainland restaurant said he has no regrets even after his actions cost him his job. Darin Hodge was a manager at the Teahouse, located near Third Beach in Stanley Park, when a customer came in Tuesday evening sporting a “Make America…

When he got up to keep shopping, he didn’t realize his gun had fallen out of his pants. Later, a group of kids sat down on the sofa and found the gun, Fishers police told WTTV. One of them pulled the trigger and fired a single shot. An IKEA spokesperson said in a statement that…

An Ohio police officer has been fired for abusing his authority after he illegally detained a man who was dating his daughter during a traffic stop. John Kovach Jr., of the Lorain Police Department, was found to have violated a string of conduct and policy procedures after pulling over Makai Coleman, 18, who was in…

Alan Sugar should be sacked by the BBC for his tweet about the Senegal national football team, an adviser to the country’s president has said. On Wednesday, Lord Sugar tweeted a picture of the team edited to include handbags and sunglasses laid out on sheets, with the caption: “I recognise some of these guys from the beach in…

Image copyright Ibrahim Diallo Image caption Ibrahim Diallo found himself jobless for three weeks with no idea why “It wasn’t the first time my key card failed, I assumed it was time to replace it.” So began a sequence of events that saw Ibrahim Diallo fired from his job, not by his manager but by…

It was 7am when my phone rang. Instead of an alarm, it was my recruiter disturbing me from a pleasant dream. It was too early for a phone call or to be caught off guard, so I did not answer. I went to take a shower and get ready for the day. On my way…

An anonymous employee tipped off managers May 3 that the woman, who has not been identified, put Ex-lax in the brownies “because she didn’t like the temp employee that was leaving,” a police report stated. The company, MMI Engineered Solutions in Saline, Michigan, confiscated the brownies and sent the woman home for the day, according…

Romany Tin started feeling feverish and tired this January, six months into his dream job teaching English at a rural Cambodian high school as a volunteer for the Peace Corps. After a battery of blood tests two days later, he got the news: He had HIV and would be flown to Washington, DC, for treatment.…

A day after his surprising firing by the Raptors, Dwane Casey was thanking Toronto and its fans. In a letter sent to the Toronto Star, Casey wrote: “Dear Toronto, Thank you. Thank you to basketball fans across this city and the country of Canada who supported the Raptors and welcomed my family with open arms…